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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Have social workers lost sight of the child in child protection? -- Aims and purpose of this book -- 1: Keeping the Child in Mind -- Heidi Koseda - A child not seen -- The child-in-focus years -- Responding to complexity -- Case study - Ainlee Labonte - A child in mind -- Conclusion: Finding a way through -- 2: A Child-Centred Model for Practice -- The child -- The political -- The critical -- The power -- Conclusion: The child in focus -- 3: Life with a Violent Mother -- The child: Living with fear, aggression and violence -- The politics of fear -- Using the critical element of the FIM to make sense of Simon's lived experience -- The power of fear -- Conclusion -- 4: The Child's Voice in Sexual Abuse. Katy's Story: Learning to Scream -- Sexual abuse of children -- Legislation and interventions -- Child development -- Parental substance and alcohol misuse -- Burden of responsibility -- Who are you? -- Conclusion -- 5: A Child Living with Parents Who Use Drugs. Connie's Story: My Dad Didn't Mean to Kill My Mum -- Parental problem drug use -- Someone somewhere has the power to see -- Knowing from within the situation: A systems approach -- Dreaming and memories -- Hyper-alert -- Dislocation -- Achieving a positive outcome through child protection -- Learning from Connie -- Conclusion -- 6: Accumulative Risks. Parental Capacity. Darren's Story: I'm the 'Man' of the House But I Am Frightened and Cannot Look After My Mum and Sister -- Parental capacity -- Undoing risk within the domain of parental capacity -- Basic care -- Ensuring safety -- Emotional warmth -- Stimulation -- Guidance and boundaries -- Stability -- Where did all the ripples go? -- Conclusion -- 7: Women and Neglect. Christopher's Story: My Mum Doesn't Want Me -- Neglect - A mother's voice?.

This paper focuses on the increasing use of electronic surveillance systems in hospitals and the apparent lack of awareness of the implications of these systems for privacy of the individual. The systems are used for identification and tracking of equipment, staff and patients. There has been little public comment or analysis of these systems with regard to privacy as their implementation has been driven by security issues. The systems that gather this information include video, smart card and more recently RFID systems. The system applications include tracking of vital equipment, labelling of blood and other samples, tracking of patients, new born babies and staff. These applications generate a vast amount of digital information that needs to be correctly secured to protect the privacy of the individual. Separately each type of information has value, but if this information were analysed together then the intelligence that can be gleaned from this could become a major threat to privacy and security. There are various standards and legislation that cover healthcare information, such as CCTV, but are these known and what are the compliance levels? RFID use is increasing in the hospital sector and this is being linked with the patient medical record as it is becoming core to treatment in some hospitals. The indications are that this will become normal practice which means that surveillance information from RFID systems will be linked much more closely to a patient's medical record. Managers, owners and custodians of information within hospitals need to be aware of the issues and take steps to ensure that staff are fully aware and trained in information handling practices. They also need to ensure that external parties who handle surveillance information are compliant with standards and good practice.

The nature of social work as a profession and the increasing demand for social workers to reflect the ethnic and cultural communities which they serve, means that social work programmes should seek to recruit and train students from many different backgrounds and ethnicities.This article will draw upon a wider evaluation, undertaken by three academics, all teaching on undergraduate and post qualifying modules on Social Work programmes. The broad aim of the evaluation was to develop an understanding of the Black African student perspective on their life experiences and its impact on their learning whilst studying social work. The particular focus will be on students' experience of practice learning.